Homeless man gets 6-year term for slashing grocery store clerk

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Jan 27, 2012 at 2:00 AM

Heather Yakin

GOSHEN - Rafael Valle III was sentenced Wednesday in Orange County Court to six years in prison for slashing a store clerk’s neck last summer.Valle, 57, who is homeless, pleaded guilty last month to attempted first-degree assault. Valle had walked up to a clerk at the Town of Wallkill Price Chopper store, asked if the man was “ready to die,” and attacked him with a folding knife.In addition to the six-year prison sentence, Valle will be subject to five years of post-release supervision while on parole.

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